-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 11/09/07 11:07, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:26:35AM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: >> On Friday 09 November 2007 09:45, Arijit Sarkar wrote: >>> On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 22:14 +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> I received a file.docx made with office 2007 >>>> Is there any easy way to read it? >>>> Thanks >>>> Thierry >>> Why don't you tell the sender to send it again in different format? >>> Since, "docx" is not a standard format, it's not possible for many soft >>> wares to offer read/write support. > ... >> This is what I did, for shure, with all needed explanation about standard, >> and >> what was wrong with this format. But, we will get more and more of those, >> and >> I was wondering if i was any easy way to read these documents. Installing >> Wine looks like one way, but I am not going to take it.So, for now I will >> ask >> senders not to use this format. > > I have done this as well, and will likely continue to do so. In fact, > I've started asking people who send .doc files that I *can* read to > resend them just on principle. I particularly enjoy responding with a > "oh really? your word processor can't save files in an ISO standard > format? how unfortunate, perhaps you should look into a different word > processor..." and chuckle with glee. Of course, I'm in a situation > where I can afford to do this. I know others are not :( > > But it's fun!
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